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Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards

Published May 29, 2025 at 3:28pm

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Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards

Education Minister Paul Calandra speaks during Question Period at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Ontario is set to give the minister of education power to more easily put school boards under supervision and require more boards to put police officers in schools.

The Canadian Press has learned that Education Minister Paul Calandra will introduce broad legislation today, following weeks of warnings to boards that he would implement tougher oversight.

Calandra announced in April that the province had taken control of one school board by appointing a supervisor due to financial "mismanagement" and was launching financial investigations of three others, describing his actions as putting all boards "on notice."

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